Volume 31, No. 4
Winter 1998
The Wintter 1998 Issue examines historical, psychological, and theological perspectives within Mormon thought, particularly on themes of sexuality, identity, and institutional changes. Eric G. Swedin offers a historical overview of Latter-day Saint approaches to sexuality and psychology, exploring how these views have evolved over time. Margaret Merrill Toscano addresses complex questions of personal identity and spirituality. Edwin B. Firmage reflects on Mormon history and critiques aspects of the anti-legal tradition within the faith, offering insights into the broader implications of this stance. Lawrence Foster compares Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, with John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, focusing on the role of sexuality and prophetic authority in their respective movements. Bryan Waterman discusses significant transformations in Brigham Young University’s Honor Code during 1965-71 under Ernest Wilkinson’s leadership
Contents
Articles/Essays
If I Hate My Mother, Can I Love the Heavenly Mother?
Margaret Merrill ToscanoDialogue 31.4 (Winter 1998): 31–42
A series of questions began to occur to me: If I hate my mother, can I love the Heavenly Mother? If I hate my mother, can I love myself? If I hate God, can I love myself? If I hate myself, can I love my mother or theHeavenly Mother? I wanted to put these questions in the sharpest terms possible—love/hate. There was no room for ambivalence at this point. I had to let myself feel my strongest and darkest feelings, about mymother, about myself, and about God.
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Joseph Smith’s Interpretation of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
David P. WrightDialogue 31.4 (Winter 1999):190–199
It is noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to his time.
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Fiction
Rook
Brandt D. CooperLast winter, after half a century of faithful church service and during a temple session, I abandoned my position at the temple veil, removed my robes, and demanded to be released. By nightfall, I had…
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A Sunday School Answer
Bradford FillmoreJust another day in paradise in the Garden Park Ward. It was a spring morning that felt more like summer, and Sister Conway, our Sunday school instructor, was gracious enough to leave the door open,…
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Northing by Musket and Sextant
John Farrell LinesSteven whistled Neil Young songs to himself as the pickup sped north towards Saltillo. From the truck’s open bed, he commanded an obstructionless and enviable view of this Mexican wilderness’s enormous sterility. For some, it…
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